But resurrection is not just consolation โ it is restoration. We get it all back โ the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life โ but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.
Timothy KellerOn the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
Timothy KellerFaith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleetingโฆ We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.
Timothy Keller